NPC occupations
Creatures theme
This is a container group; its children are:
| Bards | Musical and poetic entertainers who in fiction often are skilled fighters and in some instances even adepts at magical arts. Often depicted as swashbuckling heroes and jacks-of-all-trades. | 1998 / 2019 | 36 games |
| Clowns | Includes clowns in a traditional or an untraditional role. (too short) | 1979 / 2017 | 67 games |
| Courtesans | Entertainers who, especially the female ones, later became known primarily for their sexual services rather than the artistic ones they also provided in abundance. Commonly only in service of the the better social classes, but also the wealthy. | 1984 / 2008 | 3 games |
| Firefighters | (too short) | 1977 / 2012 | 52 games |
| Gangsters | (too short) | 1983 / 2020 | 92 games |
| Hackers | A technically minded group good at rearrange things, often computer code, to work to their's or a clients advantage in a more useful of efficient way. | 1993 / 2020 | 34 games |
| Knights | Medieval nobles serving as soldiers of higher rank and often of better training, usually depicted dressed in full platemail or lighter armor with decorative tunic over it. | 1975 / 2020 | 161 games |
| Mercenaries | Freelancers hired to be tough for a living, go to war, apprehend wanted people, kill the enemy in battle, protect/escort, & generally do jobs with life & death risk | 1980 / 2018 | 66 games |
| Minstrels | (too short) | 1995 / 2011 | 4 games |
| Mystics | Includes wizards, shamans or other characters whose occupation delves into the mystical realm. (too short) | 1975 / 2021 | 575 games |
| Necromancers | Mystics dabbling into arcane or esoteric knowledge of death and the dead; commonly perceived as inherently evil or malevolent occupation. | 1994 / 2021 | 81 games |
| Ninja | Includes stealthy assassins, saboteurs, spies, or scouts of Japanese origin who are skilled in martial arts, especial alternative arts of war. | 1983 / 2024 | 453 games |
| Outlaws | Includes mostly unorganized outlaws or others who partake in criminal activities (or behaves like one in a place with no laws to mark them as outlaws). | 1983 / 2023 | 299 games |
| Pirates | Includes pirates of any kind (too short) | 1978 / 2022 | 422 games |
| Prostitutes | Individuals of who perform sexual acts in exchange for currency or barter. (too short) | 1985 / 2020 | 77 games |
| Raiders | Includes people who raid. Pillaging and plundering their targets and vacating the premises before help arrives. | 1989 / 2016 | 34 games |
| Samurai | Involves members of the pre-industrial Japanese warrior caste, called samurai. (too short) | 1980 / 2020 | 72 games |
| Scientists | People who perform research, regardless of method. (too short) | 1997 / 2020 | 89 games |
| Soldiers | Includes grunts of some more or less organized military force. (too short) | 1981 / 2020 | 138 games |
| Thieves | Criminals who perform theft while maintaining secrecy and concealing their identity or otherwise attempting to do it completely without notice before they're long gone. | 1979 / 2016 | 48 games |
| Warrior-Mystics | People who employ esoteric knowledge in arts of martial combat and possibly outside of it, while also being fully competent in more mundane methods of fighting. | 1994 / 2021 | 24 games |
| Witches | Stereotypical witch is a female hermit with warts and green skin who curses, flies on a broom and brews potions in a cauldron. | 1980 / 2021 | 87 games |